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India's top 10 most-visited monuments in 2024-25: Taj Mahal is the most popular among both domestic and foreign tourists.

India's top 10 most-visited monuments in 2024-25: Taj Mahal tops the chart

December 05, 2025 9:00 am

India's top 10 most visited monuments in 2024-25 list: 6.26 million domestic tourists and 0.65 million foreigners visited Taj Mahal in 2024, while Qutub Minar in Delhi is ranked third.

Delhi wants private events in its monuments — but at what cost?

November 21, 2025 1:14 pm

Cultural programming can revive forgotten sites, but it can also erase local histories and shift ownership away from the communities living beside them

These 5 monuments in India are over 500-years-old

November 18, 2025 5:47 pm

Each of these monuments offers a glimpse into a bygone era

I had recommended a relook at the functioning and mandates of all the agencies working on monuments to unshackle them from the colonial mindset. We need an Archaeological Foundation to preserve civilisational and revolutionary monuments of India.

India's monuments and heritage need to recognise it's civilisational history

July 16, 2025 11:40 am

As chairman of the National Monuments Authority, I had an opportunity to flag some anomalies and suggest changes in the way we look at preservation

These 5 monuments in India generated the highest revenue through ticket sales in FY 2023-24

April 14, 2025 9:54 pm

The Taj Mahal in Agra generated the highest revenue collected by any protected monument in India.

History Headline: Tracing Delhi through its many names, histories

October 20, 2024 10:16 am

References to ‘Yoginipura’ as the name of an ancient or early mediaeval settlement in the Delhi area may have been connected with a Yogini temple that was once located in the area but no remains of an ancient temple in the area have survived.

Archaeological Survey of India will ‘delist’ some ‘lost’ monuments. What’s happening, and why?

March 25, 2024 11:59 pm

Some of India’s protected monuments, part of the country’s rich historical heritage, have disappeared — they have been lost to development, encroachment, or neglect. Which monuments are these, and when did the ASI find out?

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House panel wants monuments list pruned: Some not important

September 23, 2023 7:00 am

The Government, the sources added, believes that most of the current monuments are from the British-era despite India having a vast wealth of more ancient structures.

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Govt to ease rules on construction around protected monuments

April 01, 2023 2:38 am

No construction work or related activity is generally permitted in prohibited and regulated areas around all 3,696 protected monuments across the country, unless a specific approval is taken from the National Monuments Authority (NMA).

Tarun Vijay on India's national monuments

Tarun Vijay writes: Our designation of national monuments must be freed from the 'slave' mindset

March 18, 2023 9:27 am

We need an Archaeological Foundation to preserve the civilisational and revolutionary monuments of India, and not become chowkidars to the graveyards of invaders